Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote-posting the original post and then adding commentary, Threads users will instead be able to click a new option, “Use media,” allowing them to just reshare the photo or video directly to a new post where they can […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta’s social network Threads is experimenting with a feature that will let you schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said. Users who will get to test this feature won’t be able to schedule replies. “We want to balance giving people more control to plan their Threads posts while still encouraging real-time conversations,” he said. People […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta’s microblogging platform, Threads, is growing at a quick clip since it was launched last year, and it seems to have benefited from the exodus of users from its rival, X, a couple months ago. The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that more than 100 million people use Threads daily, and that it […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found audiences willing to try out a newer social networks since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms people are among them. So is Meta’s Threads platform. What is Threads? How do you create […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta’s Threads is rolling out its own take on Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” which are curated lists of suggested accounts that help new users find people to follow. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the social network is testing a way for users to find and easily follow collections of profiles that post about […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads on Wednesday were all experiencing issues to varying degrees as a result of a global outage affecting Meta’s apps. The cause of the outage is not yet known, but Meta has acknowledged a “technical issue” in a post on X. The company at 1:48 p.m. ET wrote, “We’re aware […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Threads is testing the ability for its users to see how well their individual posts performed on the social network. Up until now, Threads’ “Insights” feature only showed you aggregated metrics for all of your posts. Now, the feature can show you metrics for each post. If you’re in the test, you can sort posts […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A new update from Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads allows users to connect more with the fediverse, which is also called the open social web and includes services like Flipboard, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and more. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that users can now follow profiles from other fediverse servers. Starting today, users […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Instagram Threads, Meta’s competitor to Elon Musk’s X, is testing a way to make your replies to others’ posts less visible on the platform. The company is adding a new privacy feature that allows you to customize your profile to remove the tab that displays your replies. This leaves only the two tabs that show […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads is gaining an improved search interface, the company announced on Monday. The app, which offers a Meta-run alternative to Elon Musk’s X, but built on top of Instagram’s social graph, is rolling out a new way to search for specific posts, allowing users to filter searches by user profiles and […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Threads is rolling out a redesign that keeps your feeds visible on the home screen, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday. The redesign allows you to quickly swipe between different feeds just like you can on X. The change is rolling out on Android on Wednesday, and will launch on iOS in the coming […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes inspiration from one of Bluesky’s more popular additions: the concept of “Starter Packs,” or hand-curated lists of suggested users that help newcomers find people to follow. Meta’s version of these […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto
Threads is stepping up its game by giving users the power to pick their default feed as it battles to keep pace with Bluesky's explosive growth.
Meta's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, said in a Threads post on Monday that it was "testing the option" for users to decide whether they want a "For You," "following," or customized feed. "Interested to see how and if people use this," he added.
The move has come as the Meta-owned platform seeks to capitalize on a wave of users leaving Elon Musk's X and compete with a surge in interest at the rival social network Bluesky, which is winning over millions of new users.
Bluesky says it now has more than 22.6 million users, up from 13 million in October. Droves of X users recently left the platform because of concerns over hate speech and misinformation.
Bluesky is encountering a fresh set of challenges amid its growth boom. Its chief operating officer, Rose Wang, told Business Insider last week that its 20-person team was in "firefighting mode" as its user growth surpassed its own projections. It's even had to expedite getting additional server capacity at its data centers as it anticipates further growth.
The company is also seeing an "uptick in harmful content" with the surge in users, it said Monday in a post. To tackle this, it's making some short-term decisions to recall posts, which has resulted in "over-enforcement and temporary suspensions for multiple users," it said.
Platformer's Casey Newton reported that Bluesky had eight confirmed cases of child-sexual-abuse material on Monday, compared with just two cases throughout 2023. Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky's head of trust and safety, told Platformer it was increasing the number of its content moderators fourfold to 100.
Threads has recently made a series of updates to its platform that seem to be driven by heightened competition from Bluesky. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said last week that Instagram would prioritize content from people users follow, which in turn would mean they'd see less recommended content.
Mosseri also said Instagram was testing a few "long-overdue improvements," including the ability for users to search for posts from a specific date or from a particular account. It's also set to give AI-generated summaries of trending topics in its "Trending Now" feed.
Meta didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider made outside normal working hours.
Since Threads’ launch last year, users have asked for the option to set their “Following” feed as their default feed. Now, more than a year later, Threads is finally testing the ability for users to do so. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the social network is now testing the option for users […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
As the Twitter-like social network Bluesky sees a significant surge in users this month, Meta’s own X competitor Threads has been rapidly building out its platform. On Friday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that Threads will start testing AI-powered summaries of what people are discussing on the platform in the app’s “Trending now” section in […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
After several complaints about its algorithm, Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads is making changes that will allow it to surface more content from people you follow in the algorithmic feed. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a Threads post that the social network has adjusted its algorithm to show less content from accounts you don’t […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
As X competitor Bluesky takes off, topping 20 million users, Meta’s own Twitter-like app, Instagram Threads, has begun rolling out a new feature called custom feeds to its global audience. Hoping to capitalize on user demand for more personalization, custom feeds are meant to allow Threads users to easily build feeds around specific topics or […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bluesky, the social network and X competitor, has been benefiting from a surge of departures from the Elon Musk-owned app formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky has hit a major milestone: it’s topped 20 million users. What’s more, new data indicates the app’s rapid growth is seeing it close the gap with another prominent X […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
